Metailurini
Skeletal reconstruction of Metailurus
The Metailurini are a tribe of extinct cats with little elongated and slightly flattened upper canines. Previously they were assigned to the saber-toothed cats, today, however, the feline cats. Occasionally, they are proposed as a separate subfamily Metailurinae. Metailurine cats were spread from Miocene to Pleistocene in Africa, Eurasia and North America.
Genera
- Adelphailurus
- Dinofelis
- Metailurus
- Pontosmilus
- Stenailurus
- Therailurus ( position as an independent genus is due to similarities with Dinofelis doubted )